Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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Kaziranga National Park is a protected area in Assam, spread along the Brahmaputra River. The National Park has successfully completed 14th Rhino Census in 2022.
There was increase of 200 one-horned rhinoceros from the 2018 figures even though 400 deaths were recorded mainly due to natural causes. With 903 females, 750 males, juvenile category and calves, the total population of one-horned rhinos is 2,613.

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Delhi government’s flagship ‘Desh ke Mentor’ programme aims to support Government school students in their career planning stages.
The Directorate of Education of Delhi Government has issued a Code of conduct for mentors who have signed up for the programme to regulate interactions between them and students assigned to them. Earlier, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights expressed concerns regarding the safety of children.

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The Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana launched digital platform ‘Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records’ (FASTER).
The platform would be used by the court officials to instantly to send e-copies of the orders to intended parties, through a secured electronic communication channel. It covers all types of orders of the court.

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US President Joe Biden signed the “Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act” into law, as he made lynching a federal hate crime.
As many as 4,743 persons were lynched between 1882 and 1968, with 3,446 of them being Black. This act was named after the murder of a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago by a group of White men in Mississippi in 1955 as he was alleged to have whistled at a White woman.

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A draft recommendation on ‘Biodiversity and health’ was released during the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Geneva.
It will be the key focus area of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The convention, a part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was held physically after two years. It involved discussions to address the need and provide guidance for the One Health approach.

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HDFC Bank and HDFC Limited recently announced the merger of the two entities. HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector bank by assets, has a market cap of Rs 8.35 trillion.
HDFC Limited, India’s largest housing finance company with Assets Under Management (AUM) worth Rs 5.26 trillion and a market cap of Rs 4.44 trillion will merge with HDFC Bank. The subsidiary or associates of HDFC Limited will also be transferred to HDFC Bank, after regulatory approvals.

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Sweden has launched a pilot project to reduce the carbon emissions involved in steel production by switching some of that process from burning coking coal to burning hydrogen.
HYBRIT or Hydrogen Breakthrough Iron-making Technology – is a joint venture between steel giant SSAB, mining company LKAB and Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall. As per World Steel Association, every metric ton of steel produced emitted twice that much carbon dioxide.

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‘Wagner Group’, is a private military company of Russia. As per British military intelligence, 1,000 mercenaries from the ‘Wagner Group’ are being deployed to eastern Ukraine.
The group has been active over the past eight years in Ukraine, Syria and African countries. It has repeatedly been accused of war crimes and human rights abuses. The Wagner Group first went into operation during Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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After images of civilian bodies were found in the streets of Bucha city of Ukraine, there have been outrages across the world.
At the UNSC meeting on Ukraine which was addressed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, T S Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative at the UN condemned the Bucha civilian killings and called for an independent probe.

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President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Amsterdam, as a part of the first presidential trip to the Netherlands after 34 years, since the visit of President Venkataraman in 1988
President Kovind visited Keukenhof, one of the world’s largest flower gardens. He named a new breed of yellow tulips as ‘Maitri’ representing the special and enduring friendship between India and the Netherlands.